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Jan 06 2015
The category winners in the 2014 Costa Book Award have been announced, with Ali Smith winning in the Novel category with How to be Both, a Man Booker Prize shortlisted novel about grief and the experience of making and appreciating art.
The Costa Book Award is now in its 43rd year – it was previously named the Whitbread Prize. It is open solely to authors who live in the UK and Ireland. The winners are:
Fiction: Ali Smith, How To Be Both
First Novel: Emma Healey, Elizabeth Is Missing
Biography: Helen Macdonald, H Is For Hawk
Poetry: Jonathan Edwards, My Family And Other Superheroes
Children's: Kate Saunders, Five Children On the Western Front
The Sister's Curse
by Nicola Solvinic
The Lost Story of Eva Fuentes
by Chanel Cleeton
The Vanishing Place
by Zoë Rankin
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